In the Eye of the Beholder: Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Beauty
Keynote Address
Dr. Adriana Estill: Channeling Excess on Primetime: How the US Imagines Latinas
Adriana Estill grew up mostly in Richmond, California in the shadow of oil refineries, walking — mostly without knowing —through a place inhabited and shaped by the Ohlone, the Spanish, and, finally, the U.S. Americans. She also spent some formative years in Guadalajara, Mexico. As the daughter of a Mexican woman and a white American man, she grew accustomed to shifting spaces, switching codes, adapting and blending in, and living in between. Both parents’ joy and appreciation for language and literature as well as their commitment to social equality and justice led her to academic life, including a BA (Stanford) and Ph.D. (Cornell) in comparative literature. She teaches English and American Studies at Carleton College.
Student Presentations
| Emma Clark | The Ugly Truth of Ads, TV and K-pop: the Normalization of Plastic Surgery in South Korea |
| Kauaii Canada | How Thin Is Thin Actually? A Look into the Chinese Thin Ideal |
| Carolina Puga Mendoza | The Beauty of a Deadly Choice: Ethiopian Genital Mutilation |
| Allie Jones | Female Genital Mutilation: the Ugly Side of Sudan’s Beauty Choice |
| Bayleigh Walker | Mouth of Horrors: the Self-Perception of Teeth in Great Britain |
| Madeleine Farrell | Beauty and Emotionless: the Practice of Ohaguro in Japan |
| Hope Shrum | Look Like a Queen: Post-war Beauty Pageants in France |
| Bradly Wehus-Tow | Mana and Beauty in the Maori Culture |
| Makalynn Schmidt | Tonga Spirituality: Through the Lens of Ink |
| Alexis Cheatham | Beauty and Power: the Use of Colorism as a Tool in India |
| Allison Davis | Etched in Beauty: the Influence of Gender Roles in Marshall Islands’ Tattoo Practices |
| Anissa Edwards | In the Eyes of the Prophet; the Subversive Power of Makeup in Iran |